Glove holder



P 1942- G.'B| ooM ETAL 7 2,296,197

GLOVE HOLDER Filed Nov. 1, 1941 (ierl'rade Bl00m and Israel fllwm INVENTOR.

BY )3 1 0m Patented Sept. 15, 1942 GLOVE HOLDER Gertrude Bloom and Israel Bloom, New York, N. Y.

Application November 1, 1941, Serial No. 417,428

1 Claim.

The invention here disclosed relates to glove holders and is in the nature of an improvement of the invention disclosed and claimed in Patent 2,260,700 issued October 28, 1941, on an application filed Feb. 3, 1940, Ser, No. 317,042.

Special objects of the invention are to provide a simple and inexpensive form of holder readily attachable to a ladys handbag or the like, which when not in use, will take up but small space and really appear as an ornament on the bag and which when required for use, can be quickly unhooked and looped about the gloves in a condition to form a slip noose which will automatically close upon the gloves and hold them against accidental loss.

Other desirable objects and the novel features of invention by which the objects are attained will appear and are set forth in the following specification.

.The drawing forming part of the specification illustrates a simple practical commercial embodiment of the invention. Structure however, may be modified and changed as regards this particular illustration, all within the true intent and broad scope of the invention as hereinafter defined and claimed.

Fig, 1 is a front elevation of the device, showing the weight which forms the sliding closure of the glove encircling slip noose as hooked up on the supporting loop in the position of non-use.

Fig. 2 is a similar View, showing the sliding weight unhooked from the supporting loop and slidingly engaged over the suspended length of the chain encircling and retaining the gloves, the bag to which the device is attached and the gloves being indicated more or less brokenly.

Fig. 3 is a view at right angles to Fig. 2, further illustrating the weight and handle portion of the device slidingly looped about the gloves.

In the present embodiment, the holder consists of a single length of bead chain 5, suspended at one end at 6, from a loop or circlet of supporting chain I, which is caught together at 8, about the handle 9, of a handbag I0.

The opposite or free end of the glove encircling chain 5, is shown provided with a combined handle and weight I I', carrying a hook I2, large enough to be freely engageable over and disengageable from either the supporting loop I, or the upper suspended portion of the chain itself.

In an inexpensive simple form of the invention such as illustrated, the supported end of the chain may simply have a ring such as shown at 6, slidingly engaged over the supporting ring and the weight Il, may be an ornamental and more til or less ball shaped piece, such as shown and of a convenient size and shape to be readily grasped between the thumb and forefinger.

The hook I2, may be integrally formed with the ball handle or weight or it may be provided as illustrated, by a length of wire i3, embedded in and extending through the material of such handle, formed into a ring I4, at one end to receive the ring I5, on the end of the chain and formed at the opposite end into a hook I2, such as shown and which while freely engageable and slidable over both pieces of chain, has a more or less reentrant portion I6, to form a catch to prevent accidental escape of the hook under any circumstances, such as when the handbag is laid down and the slip noose is no longer subjected to the weight of the gloves.

To facilitate turning of the handle-weight piece i2, in one direction or the other, such as to face the hook portion of the same in the proper direction to engage over the supporting loop or over the suspended chain, this piece may be formed with more or less flattened sides or otherwise shaped to provide a desirable finger grip and one which will indicate to the user in the dark, for instance, the position or direction in which the open side of the hook is faced.

In use, the device may be attached to a handbag by simply opening up the supporting loop I, at 8, and then closing it about the handle or supporting strap of the handbag or pocketbook, substantially as shown in Fig. 2.

If the holder is not to be immediately used, the weight may be hooked up over the supporting loop as indicated in Fig. 1, where the device then appears simply as an ornament, suspended from the side of the bag.

When gloves are to be attached, the weight is unhooked from the supporting loop, using the weight as a handle for such purpose and then after laying the gloves on the chain, the Weight is brought up over the outside of the gloves and hooked over the suspended upper portion of the chain upon the gloves. Then as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, the weight can slide down over the chain, closing as a slip noose about the encircled gloves.

The handle is of sufiicient mass and body to actually serve as a weight for sliding the noose more tightly about the gloves and the weight of the gloves hanging in this noose keeps the noose tensioned at all times in the closing direction.

The catch portion H5, at the entrance to the hook prevents the hook from accidentally coming loose from either the supporting loop or the suspended portion of the chain, but this catch preferably is not so abrupt as to actually obstruct purposeful release of the noose weight from either the supporting chain or the noose chain.

The device can be made particularly simple and inexpensive and forms an attractive ornament on the side of the bag as well as providing a secure holder for carrying gloves.

The bead chain is ornamental in appearance and is otherwise desirable, particularly in the way that it grips the gloves but it is contemplated that other materials may be used to provide the glove sustaining slip noose or the sup porting loop.

What is claimed is:

A glove holder, comprising a supporting loop engageable about the handle of a ladys handbag, a short flexible connection suspended at one end from said supportin loop and a combined hook, handle and weight at the opposite, free end of said short flexible connection, said hook being open to be freely caught about or released from the upper portion of said suspended flexible connection and of a size to freely slide over said flexible connection when caught thereabout, said handle being fixed in respect to said hook to serve as a means for turning the hook one way or another to engage it about or disengage it from or to slide it up or down over the upper suspended portion of the flexible connection and said weight loading said hook sufiiciently to cause the same to automatically slide down over the suspended portion of the flexible connection to form an automatically closing slip noose for gripping a pair of gloves encircled by the same.

GERTRUDE BLOOM. ISRAEL BLOOM. 

